There is time until February 18, 2025, to choose to do Universal Community Service in the international town of Loppiano: a privileged place where you can live an experience of awareness, giving, exchange, education and training in the values of solidarity, nonviolence, human promotion, integration and fraternity.
With the call for the selection of volunteer operators for the Universal Community Service 2024, Loppiano will be able to welcome 4 young people who will be included in the project “Places of participation”, activated in partnership with Confcooperative Toscana.
With the “Places of Participation” project, Confcooperative Toscana and the international town of Loppiano aim to guarantee adolescents and young people at risk of exclusion, a quality socio-cultural education, supporting them through inclusive socio-cultural services, animation and information, to improve their sense of responsibility, solidarity, community and their participation in the social and cultural life of their country. For these adolescents and young people, the volunteers serving in Loppiano, after an initial phase of reception, observation and orientation, will participate in the design and dissemination of initiatives, training courses, workshops for job orientation and cultural mediation, recreational and socialization.
In Loppiano, an international town of the Focolare Movement which started more than 60 years ago, the young volunteers will have the opportunity to experience community service in an intercultural and intergenerational context, with local people and with those from the many parts of the world who have arrived here to participate in one of the Fraternity Training Schools.
The title of the program to which the project relates is “SOLID EDUCATION,” which aims to “provide quality, equitable and inclusive education and learning opportunities for all” and to “reduce inequalities within countries through strengthening social cohesion” (United Nations Agenda 2030 Goal No. 4 and 10).
The Community Service will consist of 1,145 hours per year, for 48 weeks, with an average of 24 hours per week divided into 5 days.
25% of the places are reserved for GMO “youth with fewer opportunities” (ISEE equal to or less than 15 thousand euros).
How to participate.
Applications must be submitted by 2.00 p.m. on Thursday, February 18, 2025. To participate in the 2024 call for Universal Community Service, you must:
- Be between the ages of 18 and 28 (28 years and 364 days);
- Be an Italian citizen or a citizen of one of the member states of the European Union or a legally resident non-EU citizen.
Young people who would like to join must apply online exclusively HERE by choosing Project: “Places of Participation”. The SAP (Sede di Attuazione Progetto), that is, the location where the Community Service will take place is: P.A.F.O.M. which can be searched online with code 218330.
Italian citizens residing in Italy or abroad can access it exclusively with SPID (Sistema Pubblico di Identità Digitale). The Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale website www.agid.gov.it/it/piattaforme/spid has all the information on what SPID is, what services it offers and how to apply. SPID security level 2 credentials are needed to access the DOL platform.
Citizens of countries belonging to the European Union and foreigners legally resident in Italy, if they cannot acquire the SPID, will be able to access the services of the DOL platform through special credentials to be requested from the Department, according to the procedure available on the home page of the platform itself.
Non-EU citizens normally resident in Italy, when requesting credentials to submit the application online, must attach, in addition to a valid identity document, a valid residency permit or the request for its issue/renewal.
On the websites www.politichegiovanili.gov.it and www.scelgoilserviziocivile.gov.it there is a Guide for filling out and submitting the Online Application using the DOL platform(https://domandaonline.serviziocivile.it/).
What is Universal Community Service?
Universal Community Service is volunteering to devote a few months of your life to the service of unarmed and non-violent defence of your country, to education, peace among peoples and the promotion of the founding values of the Italian Republic, through actions for communities and the country.
Is Community Service compatible with other activities?
Yes, you can undertake Universal Community Service while doing other activities (including paid ones). The other activities, however, must be compatible with and not interfere with the proper performance of the Community Service according to the timetable and modalities established by the service project, within the location of the project.